On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:33 AM, James Dugger wrote: > Mike, > > A few questions - > which box is client and which is host (for purposes of ssh)? > 1- I'm embarrassed to say, but I don't know. I think they both are client. rsync and ssh work from the laptop to the desktop but I can do neither the other way. 2- As for ping: it will ping from the desktop to the laptop but not the other way. Is this odd? In my mind it shouldn;t ping from the desktop to the laptop! seeing as what I said in 1. 3- Static IP addresses? I know I set them up as static when I first set it up and with each new install they didn't change so I never bothered making sure they were static again. It is bad of me but i just assumed everything was cool. 4- known_hosts file? There is a known_hosts file on the laptop and after it was deleted it recreated itself. Not so on the desktop. I deleted it and it didn't recreate itself. 5- id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh? Neither of those files exist. 6- authorized_keys? On neither of the boxes do I see the file authorized_keys. So I suppose that means neither is a host. On which box is the rsync program running? > Are you using static IP addresses for both boxes? > On the client box do you have a known_hosts file in ~/.ssh > If you see known_hosts file type cat known_hosts while in the directory > ~/.ssh do you see the line id-rsa= with a bunch of numbers and letter pairs? > On client do you see id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh? > On the host box do you see a file named authorized_keys in ~/.ssh? > > Also you mentioned networking problems with the address that you are using > in for Openssh can you ping the box? try pinging the host box from client > using ping -c4 check for packet loss. If you are losing > packets and/or the host cannot be reached than you have a network problem > other than just ssh and you will need to solve this first. > > > well... I'll tell you... I deleted known_hosts on the computer that will >> not rsync or ssh and ran the reset command to find no gain in the >> situation. I the tried to ssh from the laptop and after logging in I was >> presented with a message that I needed to reboot. I did but there was no >> improvement in the situation. >> >> >> >> > -- > James > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: